Category: Precursors
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23rd Columbus Critics Awards
Another strong showing for One Battle with Sinners the only other multi-award winner. Awards Tallies (7) One Battle After Another (3) Sinners (1) Blue Moon, The History of Sound, It Was Just an Accident, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, The Mastermind, One of Them Days, Predators, Rebuilding, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives…
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37th Producers Guild Nominations
F1 and Weapons make surprise appearances while Wicked: For Good is left out entirely. The Secret Agent, No Other Choice, and It Was Just an Accident were injured by their exclusions but the PGA isn’t huge on foreign features and Sentimental Value is the one they chose to recognize. Train Dreams finally gets a boost…
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Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
The second televised awards show of the season and the last for a while, the Globes have changed a lot since they were spun off from the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They have certainly come a more appropriately international organization but their Oscar prognosticative capabilities are in the air for now. We’ll see how…
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66th British Academy Longlists
BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) is one of the biggest precursors currently out there. Their nominations won’t be coming out before the Oscar nominations, so these longlists (or semifinalists) are the best we can do right now. Commentary added (10:31AM CST). Longlists Tallies (16) One Battle After Another (14) Hamnet, Sinners (13)…
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9th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations
Only a couple of minor surprises here or there but a not-terribly-shocking result. Nominations Tallies (18) Sinners (12) One Battle After Another (9) Frankenstein (7) Marty Supreme (5) 28 Years Later, F1, Hamnet (4) It Was Just an Accident, Weapons (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Sorry, Baby, Superman, Train Dreams (2) The Fantastic Four:…
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40th Society of Cinematographers Nominations
This list is almost exactly like we’ve been predicting with F1, Hamnet, and Wicked: For Good the most harmed by their omissions. The Nominations Best Cinematography Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams Documentary Cinematography 2000 Meters from Andriivka Come See Me in the Good Light Folktales Spotlight Award Amrum Orphan The…
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78th Directors Guild Nominations
Joachim Trier, Jafar Panahi, Park Chan-wook, and Clint Bentley can’t be pleased with their omissions. Otherwise, the list looks like much of what we’ve been predicting so far. The Nominations Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé…
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42nd Casting Society Awards
For some reason, my comments were not retained on this one. All I could really say was that One Battle After Another was not nominated and that’s a shock. Also note that the below has been revised. Somehow the prior source of this information had last year’s short film nominations listed. This has been updated…
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78th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
A couple of non-Oscar contenders on the list and those are the only surprises. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Meters to Andriivka Geet Gandbhir – The Perfect Neighbor Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni – Cutting Through Rocks Elizabeth Lo – Mistress Dispeller Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus – Cover-Up Directors Guild of America…
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30th Art Directors Guild Nominations
The only real surprise is that inclusion of The SpongeBob Movie. Other than that, this is what we largely expected. The Nominations Best Animation Art Direction The Bad Guys 2 Elio KPop Demon Hunters The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Zootopia 2 Best Period Art Direction Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme The Phoenician Scheme Sinners Best…